Scottish Mountain Bike Trails

ROUTES FOR ALL ABILITIES Highland Scottish Mountain Bike Trails

Welcome to Highland Perthshire

We, the Highland Perthshire Cycling Group, are a group of local mountain bikers and cyclists who love riding the trails in Highland Perthshire. We’d like others to enjoy our favourite routes – we’re sure you’ll love them too!

To make sure this is a popular mountain • Help land managers and others to work biking location for years to come, and to keep safely and effectively. Respect requests for our good relationship with local landowners reasonable limitations on when and where and other path users, we ask you to follow you can go. See ‘this specific route’ on the advice below: each card. • Let other path users know you are coming • The route description may change over time as early as possible. We find a tinkle of our so please remain flexible with your plans and bell and a friendly greeting and smile help be ready to use alternative routes. us all enjoy the paths together. • We would recommend you use an • Sometimes our fellow path users don’t hear ordnance survey map along with our route us, so we slow down for them (sometimes cards. This will help if you take a wrong turn! even stop) and keep our patience (and our • Check the weather and make sure you smiles!) have all the equipment you need for your • Remember it is good to go fast when you day out. If you are in any doubt please pop can see what is ahead, but please take care into one of our cycle centres for some and watch your speed on blind corners friendly advice! and dips. Although all the above is important, our • Please take extra care near wildlife and main priority is that you take care and leave the environment as you find it. HAVE FUN! • If the route looks very wet and fragile We hope to see you enjoying the trails and please go slowly (or walk) and try to stick to beautiful environment with a smile on your the line of the track. face in the near future! Scottish Mountain Bike Trails

Highland Perthshire Cycling Group would like to thank:

DISCLAIMER: Details current in March 2011. Whilst the Highland Perthshire Cycling Group and their partners have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this information, they cannot be held responsible for any changes that may take place to the routes, nor for any accidents or injuries sustained whilst following the routes. Cyclists and walkers must take personal responsibility for their own safety.

IMAGES: Front cover: VisitScotland/Scottish Viewpoint, main image by Andy McCandlish. Above: Felicity Martin

ROAD CYCLING Look out for a new map of road routes around Highland Perthshire, to be published by Harveys in association with ByCycle, the Perth based cycling group. This will be widely available for purchase! Welcome to Highland Perthshire Scottish Mountain Bike Trails

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